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In 1998 two teams traced back the expansion of the Universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating. This talk describes this discovery and explains how astronomers have used observations to trace our Universe’s history back more than 13 billion years.

Moderator: Ana Achúcarro, professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden (Netherlands) and the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU

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Brian Schmidt